Constructing Post-Colonial India
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Constructing Post-Colonial India: National Character and the Doon School is a 1998 book by Indian sociologist Sanjay Srivastava that surveys post-colonial Indian identity with a focus on The Doon School, an elite all-boys boarding school founded in 1935 in Dehradun, India.[1][2][3] From 1989 through 1993, Srivastava conducted field research at the school, and he interviewed parents and teachers as well as the school's graduates.[4] The book's main argument is that to be post-colonial in India necessitates the espousal of values such as secularism, rationalism, and a modernity that is not Occidental-inspired, but is contextual to the country.[5][6]
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| Author | Sanjay Srivastava |
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| Language | English |
| Subject | Sociology |
| Publisher | Routledge |
Publication date | 1998 |
| Publication place | India |
| Media type | Print (Hardback and paperback) |
| Pages | 272 |
| ISBN | 9780415178556 |